diff --git a/core/systemd/PKGBUILD b/core/systemd/PKGBUILD
index d4c57d05d..58b19978c 100644
--- a/core/systemd/PKGBUILD
+++ b/core/systemd/PKGBUILD
@@ -11,8 +11,8 @@
 pkgbase=systemd
 pkgname=('systemd' 'systemd-libs' 'systemd-resolvconf' 'systemd-sysvcompat')
 # Can be from either systemd or systemd-stable
-_commit='ef677436aa203c24816021dd698b57f219f0ff64'
-pkgver=243.78
+_commit='e51d9bf9e5ac5a6618c175cd9b5cfdc6733cd5d1'
+pkgver=243.162
 pkgrel=2
 arch=('x86_64')
 url='https://www.github.com/systemd/systemd'
@@ -70,8 +70,6 @@ sha512sums=('SKIP'
             '209b01b044877cc986757fa4009a92ea98f480306c2530075d153203c3cd2b3afccab6aacc1453dee8857991e04270572f1700310705d7a0f4d5bed27fab8c67')
 
 _backports=(
-  # Revert "sysusers: properly mark generated accounts as locked" 
-  '12c829376a95ee0a734b8dbd347042062516f0a9'
 )
 
 _reverts=(
@@ -106,8 +104,10 @@ prepare() {
 pkgver() {
   cd "$pkgbase-stable"
 
+  # TODO: Switch to upstream versioning post v243!
+
   local _version _count
-  _version="$(git describe --abbrev=0 --tags)"
+  _version='v243'
   _count="$(git rev-list --count ${_version}..)"
   printf '%s.%s' "${_version#v}" "${_count}"
 }